Transcending Disciplines, Transcending Cultures:
Native American Studies Today WORKSHOP AGENDA

Harison Room, Faculty House
Columbia University

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21

5PM Networking and Cocktails
5:30PM Keynote Lecture and a brief Q&A
"Why Indigenous Nations Studies?:
Opportunities for Decolonizing Plasticities in Native American Studies"

Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, PhD
Founder and Director, Center for Indigenous Peoples' Critical and Intuitive Thinking
Associate Professor of Indigenous Nations Studies
University of Kansas

Open to the public [more information]

6:30PM Dinner

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22

9AM Breakfast
9:20AM Introduction by Maria Brave Heart
Associate Professor of Social Work, Columbia University
Opening Remarks by Elizabeth Hutchinson
Assistant Professor of Art History, Barnard College

9:30AM to 12:00PM Session I
Defining Native/Indigenous Studies as an Academic Discipline
Moderated by Evan Haefeli
Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University

Presenters:

Robert Warrior
Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor of English, University of Oklahoma

Sandy Grande
Associate Professor of Education, Connecticut College

Carmen Lopez
Executive Director of the Native American Program, Harvard University

12:00-1PM Lunch
1PM to 3:30PM Session II
Making a Career in Native/Indigenous Studies
Moderated by Aaron Fox
Associate Professor of Music
Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University

Presenters:

Dawn Martin-Hill
Academic Director of the Indigenous Studies Program, McMaster University

Michael Yellow Bird
Associate Professor of Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas

J. Kehaulani Kauanui
Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, Wesleyan University

3:30PM Closing remarks by Maria Brave Heart

3:45 to 5PM Reception